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Jaguar Predation
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 (06-07-2019, 12:17 PM)Styx38 Wrote: Is there any picture of a jaguar eating a deer, like a brocket, whitetail or marsh deer? Not easy to view but here's something relevant to it  *This image is copyright of its original author Top left to right: black bear, coyote, gray fox, red fox, jaguar, gray wolf, white tail deer (jaguar kill), wolf track, baby pronghorn foot, bobcat, mountain lion Jaguar w/it's Tapir Kill  *This image is copyright of its original author Aratirí is one of the largest jaguars known to inhabit the area, and this isn't the first time one of his tapir feasts has been caught on camera. He was last seen in October of 2015, devouring a similar meal in Iguazú National Park. https://www.earthtouchnews.com/conservation/endangered/jaguars-tapir-feast-offers-rare-glimpse-at-the-lives-of-argentinas-big-cats/  *This image is copyright of its original author Jaguar making a Peccary kill 
Jaguar with an ungulate kill. Not sure if wild, domestic or a feral pig.
 *This image is copyright of its original author photo by Ricardo Leser http://jaguar.org.br/
From Edge of Extinction Thread
Jag w/Peccary  *This image is copyright of its original author Black Bear Skull, killed by El Jefe Jaguar in N. America  *This image is copyright of its original author Tapir Kill  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Peccary  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Caiman  *This image is copyright of its original author
Abstract
Jaguars (Panthera onca) often prey on livestock, resulting in conflicts with humans. To date, kill rates and predation patterns by jaguars have not been well documented. We studied the foraging ecology of jaguars in an area with both livestock and native prey and documented kill rates, characteristics of prey killed, patterns of predation, and the influence of prey size on the duration at kill sites and the time interval between kills. Between October 2001 and April 2004 we monitored 10 jaguars equipped with global positioning system (GPS) collars. We collected 11,787 GPS locations and identified 1,105 clusters of locations as sites of concentrated use (e.g., kill sites, bed sites, and dens). Of these, we found prey remains at 415 kill sites and documented 438 prey items. Kills were composed of 31.7% cattle (9.8% adults and 21.9% calves), 24.4% caiman (Caiman crocodilus yacare), 21.0% peccaries (mostly Tayassu pecari), 4.1% feral hogs (Sus scrofa), 3.9% marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus), 3.2% giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), 2.0% capybaras (Hydrochoeris hydrochaeris), 1.6% brocket deer (Mazama americana and M. gouazoubira), and other avian, mammalian, and reptilian species. Individual jaguars differed in the proportion of each species they killed and the proportion of native prey versus cattle. Although all 10 cats killed cattle, 5 killed a high proportion of cattle (>35% of kills), and 3 killed few cattle (<15%). Males (27%) and females (35%) killed cattle in similar proportions. In contrast, male jaguars killed a higher proportion of peccaries than did females, and female jaguars killed more caiman than did males. The mean kill rate for all jaguars was 4.3 days ± 4.4 SDbetween known consecutive kills. The time interval to the next subsequent kill by jaguars increased with increasing prey size. Jaguars also increased the length of time at a carcass as prey size increased. Jaguar kill rates on peccaries steadily increased over the 4-year study. In contrast, kill rates on cattle decreased during the same period. Rainfall, and subsequent water levels on the Pantanal, was the main driver of seasonal kill rates by jaguars on cattle and caiman. As water levels increased, predation on caiman increased as caiman became more distributed throughout the landscape. Conversely, as water levels fell, caiman became less plentiful, and cattle were moved out into pastures thereby increasing their availability to more jaguars. https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article...722/846646 
I just come to discover the photo which can follow or complete the previous one (at #142)
Great video of a Jaguar making a Caiman Kill
here if you can't see the video https://www.instagram.com/p/B0HPgdTAvmlk6AMrzKxC9oZnLXEy6Ojw29zSfs0/ Jaguar with it's Tapir Kill
Paulo Barreiros
That's Mick Jaguar catching a Caiman!  *This image is copyright of its original author Jaguar (juv.) eating a Caiman Nowadays we’re fortunate enough to see Jaguars killing Caimans at least a couple of times a month (although not often in the open…). But to actually see them eating their prey is extremely rare!! ISO1200, 1/320 s f/5,6 400 mm Pantanal, Brazil  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
 (07-23-2019, 12:21 AM)Pckts Wrote: Great video of a Jaguar making a Caiman Kill Jaguar will certainly kill more tapirs if they did not live at low densities. Jaguars are like the last evidence that Central and South America had large animals, togheter with the tapir (excluding the large reptiles, of course). None of the two deer species in Central and South America (White-tailed deer and Pampas deer) surpass the 200 kg, and normally weight between 20 to 140 kg, with exceptional specimens over 180 kg, mostly in North America. |
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